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While critics debate Hugo Chávez’s economic and political impact on Venezuela,
the legacy that he leaves his family will also be under close scrutiny.

Chávez may have started life within a family of humble means, but he certainly
did not end it in such a predicament. According to a report by Criminal
Justice International Associates (CJIA), a Virginia-based company, the
Chávez family has amassed a fortune of about $2 billion since he was elected
President in 1999.

Separately, CJIA also claimed that criminal elements within the Chávez
administration had siphoned off about $100 billion of nearly $1 trillion in
oil